Fall 2024 Black Belt Cycle

Candidate Journals

King Tiger Tae Kwon Do Black Belt candidates blog daily about their journey: their thoughts and feelings, their struggles and successes; their pain and their encouragement. Follow along on their journey; words of encouragement are always welcome!
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Today was an extremely weird day.  I spent most of the workday waiting for other people to pin things down so I could get to my part of the work.  Every step forward felt like two steps back and if I had known how long it was going to be, I'd have gotten far more requirements done during the day.  Instead I spent a lot of time trying to keep up with what wasn't going on and sneaking in requirements when I felt like I did have time.

After work was over, it was time to wake up Samuel who was home sick and head out the door for Black Belt class.  We had two more new people from Black Belt USA and spent most of the class on kicks.  I'm probably not supposed to say this but practicing the kicks from the Black Belt forms was actually a lot of fun and made it better in terms of both the practical application as well as having a better focus on what we were doing.

After class we had mentoring with Master Cavazos and he said we looked better than our last session which doesn't mean we look great but it does mean we're improving so I'll take that.  Then we came home, had dinner, worked on our creative forms a bit, and waiting for the AAA guy to come swap out the tire on Gabe's van.  Now it's time for bed and then to start it all over again in the morning.

rhythm forming
Screwy tire